Yale Papyrus Collection

paris

Pages from Façade, a magazine published approximately twice yearly in Paris between 1976 - 1983.
Taking inspiration from Interview Magazine, Façade covered cultural high life in france, documenting night clubbing, music, fashion, and general fabulousness.

A souvenir from the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, an attraction that allowed visitors to view the moon through a giant telescope.
The imagery for the attraction may be related to the Georges Méliès 1898 film "La Lune à un mètre" (or "The Astronomer's Dream")

Ogden Nash's "They Don't Speak English in Paris", ca. 1935, with his reactions to the increasing
fame and acceptance of Gertrude Stein's writing (including a crude reference to the all African-American cast
of "Four Saints in Three Acts")

A home movie (originally captured on 16mm film) taken by Julian Stein of Gertrude Stein's oldest brother Michael Stein's home, designed by Le Corbusier, in Garches, France followed by scenes of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas at the Hotel Pernollet in Belley, France.